A Bellini Madonna and some lines from Nabokov symbolise the broadcaster’s dedication to the transcendence and beauty of art “I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, ...

Jacques Audiard’s ‘A Prophet’ and John Hillcoat’s ‘The Road’ Malik is a mutt, of Corsican and Arabic descent. His Muslim cousins want nothing to do with him, while the Corsicans think he’s a “dirty ...

They were new chums, fresh off the boat. Daisy May O'Dwyer was 20, the porcelain-skinned daughter of a drunkard doctor from Cashel. Edwin Henry Murrant, a year younger, was English and claimed to be ...

The late Roald Dahl, who was born 100 years ago this month, had many qualities that made him an outstanding children’s writer, including an eccentric sort of humour, an acute sense of fairness and a ...

Every few weeks, unusual packages arrive by post at the University of Adelaide. Sent by dutiful citizen scientists across Australia, they contain biological material that has shed light on the ...

How creating sculpture for animals is transforming wildlife conservation and the art world At the end of winter, I came across a little penguin on our local beach. It was the first penguin I had seen ...

It was the place where Manning first began intuiting social class, a theme that would obsessively dominate his history of ...

Almost a century later, Scandinavian timber companies began buying up vast parcels of Portuguese land to grow Eucalyptus globulus, or blue gums, to pulp for paper. The vast plantations crippled ...

“A funny thing happened in Australia,” Frank Sinatra told a New York audience. “I made a mistake and got off the plane.” The plane in question – the private jet of one of Sinatra’s Las Vegas casino ...

The untold Aboriginal history of the R.M. Williams boot The young man looks straight ahead, both eyes fixed on the camera even as his hands feed a piece of leather through the sewing machine. Daylight ...